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TIL about HumanLight, a secular alternative to Christmas that celebrates values such as humanity and hope. You celebrate the day with some component of your choosing that celebrates these values.

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Kdn4 TIL: Today I learned that the new British citizenship test demands knowledge of Monty Python and the Beatles
1a1g4 TIL it's called Firmware because it exists on the boundary between Hardware and Software
wBVE TIL Two privacy researchers from the University of Texas were able to unmask Netflix users’ political and sexual orientation by taking the “anonymized” movie ratings (released as part of Netflix Prize) and comparing them against non-anonymized movie ratings posted at IMDB.
xy61 TIL that there is a rather large population of Bull Sharks living in a river… yes, in Australia.
e0MeL TIL peekaboo is universal to all cultures, and developmental psychologists believe it is important to infant development.